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Jerry Garcia was named after composer Jerome Kern.
Roy Acuff tried out for a minor league team associated with the New York Giants, but sunstroke and nervous breakdowns ended his baseball career and led him to focus on music.
Warren Zevon knew he was dying while he recorded his last album, “The Wind.” It features friends including Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, Joe Walsh, David Lindley, Billy Bob Thornton, Emmylou Harris, Tom Petty and Dwight Yoakam.
Bob Wills inadvertently added a trumpet to the Texas Playboys. He hired Everet Stover as an announcer. Stover, who played trumpet in the New Orleans Symphony, thought he was hired as an instrumentalist. He began playing, and Wills let it happen.
Though he died at 32 years of age, Franz Schubert wrote about 600 lieder, ten complete or almost complete symphonies. liturgical music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and solo piano music, according to Wikipedia.
Jazz pianist Marcus Roberts attended Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, Florida, the same school as Ray Charles.
Elvin Bishop was on the bill at the Fillmore East in New York City when The Allman Brothers Band recorded their famous live album.
Neil Young called Jimi Hendrix and JJ Cale the two best guitarists he ever heard.
Noel Coward, the most sophisticated of English composers, had almost no formal education.
Frank Sinatra gained his initial fame with Harry James and His Orchestra, but left after only one year.
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